Denbow’s Library of Babel
The Library of Babel is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. The story is about an infinite library that contains every possible book composed of a limited set of 25 characters. The library is an endless series of hexagonal…
THE WRITTEN RECORD
Technology
Everything Old Is New Again
Every now and then I ask myself why I would put so much time and effort into maintaining this website and keeping it online. I make no money from it, in fact, it does cost money to have my own…
Footnote Theme 1.3.0 Is Live
I have redesigned the website again. Anyone who has been here for a while probably saw that coming. This time I am using new-to-me programming languages and newer frameworks to make the website load and react faster. Including more mobile…
Website Redesign
I toggle settings, void warranties and go through website redesigns more than I change my underwear sometimes. I can never leave well enough alone because...it is Neve well enough for me. I'm adding new technologies and programming languages this time…
Working Title For Work In Progress
Because I rarely finish what I start when it comes to these things, here is an image of a companion website to a book that is in it's planning stages. No working title, just a rough outline. This website design…
Agentic AI
Today I am tasking ChatGPT Agents to sort, organize my Documents folder in the MacBook as a test, then report findings before executing any changes. This is called Agentic AI. Agentic AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can…
iReader
My Kindle Paperwhite e-reader didn’t die. The hardware still worked. What failed was Amazon’s willingness to support it. When I discovered that my perfectly functional Kindle had reached the end of Amazon’s support, the solution offered to me was predictable:…
Two New Cases
While strolling around various towns this Labor Day weekend I was thinking I needed a better setup for the iPhone. After research I came across a master grip system that attaches to the phone using MagSafe attachments. The system comes…
The Clean Slate Protocol
I have a problem, and it lives on four different hard drives. For years my system for "backing up" has basically been: buy a new external drive when the old one fills up, dump a bunch of stuff on it,…
Downsizing
What set me off recently was a notification from Apple stating my Apple One subscription is going up again. This makes the third time in a year I think. For me it would be an extra $24 a year, which…
28GB
I've calculated the disk storage space for all of my physical media including e-books, CDs and video discs. 28 gigabytes on one device is seriously impressive, but what else would I surround myself with?
Retro Audio
With the announcement of Apple raising their digital subscription package , Apple One, 9to5mac.com/2023/10/2… I’ve decided to go backwards instead.
Archived
I have created this page to host all previous articles on my website. In other words, nothing new to see here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to view previous articles over the years. Or, while you are…
Zen Tech
Over the years I have come to the realization where I don’t want my devices to make me more productive, I want them to have zen. That is no effort synchronization, minimal design and high function.
Minimalist iPhone
I’ve been looking for an everyday minimal carry and to reduce dependency from an iPhone for some time. I want to limit distractions, I don’t want to carry my iPhone with me everywhere, until I do. But I want the…